Chapter 28: Shennong tastes poison
"You read a lot! How many kinds of poison were in the herbs, and didn't he eat them the same? Why can't you eat poison? The little beggar was unwilling to be educated by the stone, and retorted.
"If he knew it was poisonous, he wouldn't eat it! When he ate it, he found that it was poisonous and told the world that the grass should not be eaten. So no one knows it's poisonous and eats it! Stone argued.
"Eat, eat, you're such an idiot! Look at it, they won't eat it if they know it's poisonous! The little beggar was a little impatient.
"We'll see!"
As soon as the hour arrived, everyone in Shennong Palace was in place, and they were neatly arranged in the martial arts training ground. Bao Tiannu, Li Zigang, and Yongmen Guang finally appeared, and they stood at the front of the queue.
Nong Qingyun sat at a table full of small boxes. Behind him hung a vermilion banner with seven golden characters on it: "Shennong's Great Assessment of Tasting Poison".
"The annual Shennong Taste Poison Assessment starts now! Thirty disciples who have qualified for the exam are invited to come forward! A young disciple who was selected by Nong Qingyun as the master of ceremonies for this assessment was impassioned in the face of the disciples of Shennong Palace, and it seemed that he was the final winner.
Thirty disciples obediently walked out of the queue, and the master of ceremonies was triumphant, and his voice was high-pitched: "The first round will test your detoxification ability. The rules are as follows: 1. The antidote shall not use any of the herbs. 2. When you hear the command to 'start tasting poison', you should take the poison immediately, and you can take the antidote only when you hear the command to 'start detoxification'. 3. After taking the antidote and a cup of tea, the pulse will be measured by the palace master, and those with pulse disorders will be eliminated! ”
"Baicao Dan?" Stone turned to the little beggar and asked.
"Baicao Pill is the secret elixir of Shennong Palace, and only each generation of palace masters knows its formula. Legend ...... "The little beggar was smug and deliberately sold his money, enjoying the boring pleasure of the stone begging him to continue."
"Legends? Hurry up, it's about to begin! "The stone fell into the trap.
"You beg me?" The little beggar has to make inches.
"I beg you." The stone paid no attention to this worthless dignity.
"Huh! Legend has it that more than 6,000 years ago, Emperor Yan of the Shennong clan tasted a hundred herbs and deserved this recipe. Nowadays, most of the herbs in this secret recipe are nowhere to be found among the people, only Shennong Palace has herbal root seeds, which are cultivated every year and passed down from generation to generation. There is a dense forest in the mountain behind Shennong Palace......"
The little beggar deliberately stopped abruptly after dropping a decoy, waiting for the stone to solve it.
"And then?" The stone did not understand the little beggar's secret thoughts, which was the opposite of his habit of vomiting quickly.
"No, it's all said it's a jungle, do you think you can know anything if you want to know? Hum! ”
"And you know what?"
"Of course I do."
"Tell me quickly!" The stone caught a glimpse of the little beggar's eyes that were exactly the same as those that had appeared just now, and then he knew what he should say, "Please, please, tell me quickly!" ”
The little beggar was satisfied, and slowly opened his thin lips.
"Only the palace master Nong Qingyun and her daughter Nong Tieshu, as well as his three disciples Bao Tiannu, Li Zigang and Yongmen Guang, can enter the dense forest. Other junior disciples were not allowed to step into the dense forest for half a step, and these herbs that had been lost in the rivers and lakes were also cultivated and cultivated by the five of them in turn. Nong Qingyun has traveled south and north for decades, and has encountered extremely dangerous poisons on the rivers and lakes, and Baicao Dan can relieve the toxicity. If the person taking the medicine is strong, he will be able to live in three to five hours. Even if the person taking the medicine is weak, it can return to normal in a day or two. ”
"How do you know? Even the dense forest of Shennong Palace is clear? The stone tilted his head, and the little beggar's many doubts increased.
"There's nothing a beggar doesn't know." The little beggar clasped his hands in front of his chest, shaking his calves, and his arrogant expression seemed to be dominated by him.
"The assessment starts now, please go to the palace master to get the next pill!" The master of ceremonies is facing the subject.
"What's Shimomaru?" The stone asked the little beggar again.
"There is a bottom, there is a middle, there is an up, and this pill must be the least toxic pill."
Shi didn't refute, he felt that it made sense, but for some reason Xiao Qi was guessing, but he couldn't guess.
Each disciple received a black ball the size of a broad bean.
"Start tasting poison!" The master of ceremonies was in high spirits, as if all his life was in his hands.
The thirty disciples held up the black balls the size of broad beans to their eyes and put them into their mouths without hesitation.
"See? Did they eat the poison? The little beggar squinted at the stone with a stilted toe.
"He, they ......" The features of the stone twisted like a knotted rope. He felt the poison enter his stomach and tumble inside, puncturing his stomach and turning his blood black. He subconsciously raised his arm and rolled up his sleeve. A slender snow-white arm appeared in front of him, exactly the same as before, not swollen, not discolored. He was relieved and said to himself: "It's okay, it's okay......"
"What's okay? Are you not admitting defeat? "The little beggar is aggressive.
"Serve, serve, I have seen it, and there is such an assessment, it's scary!"
"Hmph, it's rare and weird!"
Half an hour later, the disciples began to show various symptoms of the onset of poison. The man who was still weak began to have nosebleeds, squatted on the ground, and couldn't straighten his waist. The skill is deep, but his face is blue, and he is still as immovable as a sculpture.
"Start detoxifying!" Thirty disciples sparsely took out the pills they had prepared from their arms.
Those disciples who had been beaten down by the poison didn't even glance at the pill in their hands, and couldn't wait to stuff it into their mouths. The disciples who had not yet been disturbed by the poison were calm and calm, and after slowly putting the pill in their hands and playing with it, they were gracefully put into their mouths.
"Wow, awesome! Aren't they afraid of toxic attacks? "The stone is incredible.
"Hmph, fake look!" The little beggar scoffed. It wasn't until all the disciples had swallowed the homemade antidote pill that Bao Tiannu and Li Zigang swallowed the pill in their hands.
"Which of the two of them do you think will be the winner?" Stone asked the little beggar.
"I said they're neither?"
"Why? They are the eldest disciples and second disciples of the Farm Palace Master! ”
"Usually the eldest is stupid, the second is cunning, and the third is the luckiest!"
"What kind of crooked reasoning are you?"
"Jianghu experience."
"Then you mean that Yongmen Guang is the final winner?"
"Quite possibly."
"Impossible! He had a nosebleed just now, and Bao Tiannu and Li Zigang only changed their faces slightly. ”
"That can only show that his skills are weaker than his senior brother, and it doesn't mean that his detoxification ability is weaker than his senior brother."
"If he can really win, it's just luck."
"He's lucky, isn't he the only one in the capital who hasn't been injured?" Shi had nothing to say, he didn't understand why the little beggar could defeat him everywhere, as if this Shennong Palace was his territory.
After a cup of tea, the master of ceremonies said, "Take the pulse!" ”
Thirty disciples lined up, walked to Nong Qingyun's table, and put their hands on the table.
Nong Qingyun's expression was serious, he put his hand on their pulse, and changed to another person in a snap of his fingers. Soon, all thirty people had their pulses taken and were waiting for a brutal elimination or an honorable promotion.
Nong Qingyun spread out the rice paper on the case, and with a stroke of the pen, ten names appeared on it.
The master of ceremonies took the list of eliminated people, pretended to regret, and read out the names on the list in a low voice.
"Do you see?" The little beggar asks the stone.
"Oh, I see."
"The ten people who were eliminated are the ten people with the weakest pulse, and the pills they make have poor detoxification ability."
"The weakest pulse? The farmer palace master can know whose pulse is strong and whose pulse is weak? I think the imperial doctor has to wear it on his wrist for a long time! ”
"Hmph, how can the imperial doctor compare with the master of the Farm Palace?" Shi knew that he had said another stupid word, and the people of the rivers and lakes naturally looked down on the people in the palace. How can he compare the lord of a house with the caged finch?
After the master of ceremonies finished reading, his eyebrows were raised, and his passion and vigor returned to his young face that had just experienced vicissitudes:
"Start tasting poison! Please go to the palace master to get the middle pill! ”
The remaining twenty disciples walked up to Nong Qingyun and took out a peanut-sized cyan pill.
"Is this middle pill really more poisonous than the next pill?" Stone secretly said in his heart, he didn't ask the little beggar, he didn't want to be ridiculed by him again,
"This cyan looks much more pleasing to the eye than the black, and it's not so big, so why is it more toxic?" This pill, which looked much more pleasing to the eye, was not as docile as the stone had imagined.
As soon as the disciples took it, three of them were short of breath and lay on the ground and rolled. Two of them hurriedly took out their homemade antidote from their bosoms and swallowed it. The other fought stubbornly, refusing to take the antidote, no matter how much the poison had eroded him.
After a while he passed out and lay motionless on the ground. The two men who had taken the antidote didn't get much better, trying to control the number of moans and rolls they were trying to show off their detoxification abilities.
"Carry them to the backyard and give them a baicao pill!" Nong Qingyun's face was gloomy, and he moved a small box to the upper left corner of the desk, and there were three Baicao pills in the box.
He waved his hand and motioned for his disciples to quickly remove the three embarrassed guys. The remaining seventeen disciples were terrified and everyone was in danger.
This time the poison was much more toxic than last year's, and everyone felt its tremendous impact and destructiveness. The true qi in their bodies is fighting to the death against the poison, and they don't know when they will be defeated.
Panic spread among them.
Bao Tiannu, Li Zigang and Yongmen Guang were calm. The three of them were disciples recruited by Nong Qingyun personally and taught martial arts in person. Compared to the other disciples of Shennong Palace, they were much ahead in any aspect. The final winner of this big test is undoubtedly one of the three of them.
"Start detoxifying!" The master of ceremonies' instructions are like a lifesaver.
This time, except for Bao Tiannu, Li Zigang and Yongmen Guang, no one played with the pill anymore, and even they didn't care about their demeanor and gobbled it up, as if they hadn't eaten for three days, and a pill the size of a peanut could fill their stomachs.
After a cup of tea, the master of ceremonies said, "Take the pulse!" ”
Twelve people walked confidently towards Nong Qingyun's table. The five men lay on the ground and watched as their brothers walked past them, their unruly legs still refusing to support their master.
Nong Qingyun once again touched everyone's pulse at the speed of lightning and thunder. With a stroke of the pen, five more disciples finished their devastated assessment. The seven disciples had entered the final challenge of the detoxification assessment without danger.